Getting back on topic (though I love the side commentary), I wonder if the reason numbers are down because, as the OP says, the girls are known partiers, because they have drinking at recruitment events, that some recruitment events are WITH fraternity men... perhaps a lot of women are looking for a sisterhood based on friendship/service/etc., and NOT on booze and boys.
If the first thing PNMs see(at recruitment) is drinking and fraternizing with boys, what reason is there to join?
I bet you five bucks that if they took drinking and boys out of recruitment, things would be VERY different (if people can get past their reputation enough to check them out).
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